Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kathleen Winsor, whose sensational pen has been quiet since it scratched out her sexy, best-selling Forever Amber in 1944, has switched from plumed-hat romantics to life in the modern world, her publishers said. The second Winsor novel...
Never Dies is loosely knotted together by a narrative that does its best to supply a romantic strand (India harbors a gorgeous American girl who has got herself into hot water by marrying a Siamese prince). But the fruity, feathered hat of glamorous romance is not one that sits comfortably on the head of ex-Missionary Margaret Landon. Her virtues are the warmth of her religious faith and the frankness with which she discusses such delicate matters as jealousy and rivalry among missionaries. The general result is too honest and heartfelt to be scoffed at, but too artless to make...
...refused admission to the Tokyo Salon, Foujita rightly reasoned that his black bangs, Harold Lloyd glasses and whisker-fine brush drawings would please Parisians more than they did his fellow Japanese. He came to know Montmartre better than he had Fujiyama, strolled its steep streets in a leopard-skin hat, followed by a brace of tabbies on a leash...
...whom he had scarcely heard, had taken some interest in an article the instructor had written touching on the law of evidence. Anyhow, it was a chance for a notable meeting that the young philosopher had no intention of missing. Putting on his most sedate black suit and black hat, he set out for New Haven to call on the distinguished gentleman who should, he thought, turn...
...first level of objection, there is the question of which would you rather sit at or in? A ten foot long piece of wood sculpture of ancient indigenous origin, with lots of room on which to lay your note-book, of whatever shape you may have, and your hat, if you wear one, your spare pencil, your spectacles and your watch, with lots of leg-room underneath, to tilt, squirm, or sprawl as the fancy seizes you-or a smooth, varnished wood-and-iron chair, carved to fit your bottom, screwed immovably to the floor, with the right arm designed...